Thursday, October 20, 2011

Happy Harvest Banner

I wanted to add some much needed fall decoration to our family room so I set out on creating this Happy Harvest Banner.

I started with the letters by using my Cricut and the Speaking of Fall cartridge. All the paper was from my scrap bin which made it harder to find enough and get it all to coordinate. (In hindsight, I wish I'd used the Imagine and printed the paper and cut it. That's why I got it in the first place.)

After I settled on my letters I needed a base for them. The 2 Hs were much larger then the other letters so I decided they needed their own base, a pumpkin. The pumpkins were cut from the Speaking of Fall Cartridge the letter P. I used Design Studio to make them 6" wide and 5 1/2" long.

The only brown paper I had was too plain and my kids were longing to help so I used white butcher paper and brown acrylic paint. Using their fingers they swirled Espresso and Brown (Craft Smart brand) around to cover the white. Before it dried I sprinkled Martha Stewart Antique Silver glitter on the paint. While the glitter is still in my daughter's hair it did give a nice sparkle to the banner. The brown base pieces are cut from Lacy's Labels, "All Girl" at

4" wide and 5 1/2" long.

You might notice that the Indians and Pilgrims do not created the H letters in the cartridge. I used these characters from other letters to make the H.
The Pilgrims are holding turkey legs and the Indians are holding corn, both also from that cartridge but from other letters, cut much smaller and glued together to help form the Hs.

When I was almost done, my son says "Mom you should switch the corn to the Pilgrims and the chicken to the Indians." Why, I ask.

"Because the Indians make Butter Chicken."

My boy is too smart for his own good. I'm glad he knows good food, even if he doesn't yet know the difference between Native Americans and people from India (who are known as Indians too).

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I love creating stuff. I scrap, sew, paint, woodwork, cook and more. Whatever strikes me. But I love paper-crafting the most of all.
Taking something plain or used, even burned and ugly and make it pretty again…
Trading Beauty For Ashes (Isaiah 61:3)
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